Tuesday, January 8, 2013

If you listen, service excellence follows

The capacity to listen is probably the most important skill that relates
to service excellence. Without this capacity staff will not know the
expectations of their customers, each other, or the key stakeholders of
their communities. Organisations that provide great service are
fantastic listeners; to their customers, to their key stakeholders and
to each other within the organisation.

William Isaacs (1999) notes that our culture is dominated by sight.
Light moves at 186,000 miles per second, yet sound only travels at 1,100
feet per second. In summary, William Isaacs says that in order to
listen we must slow down.

How do you and/or your organisation slow down to listen?

QuoteOur hearing puts us on the map. It balances us. Our sense of balance
is intimately tied to our hearing; both come from the same source within
our bodies...Hearing is auditory, of course, relating to sound. The
word auditory...most ancient root means “to place perception.” When we
listen, we place our perceptions.
(William Isaacs, lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management, consultant and author)

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